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Originally Posted by Talyn
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However, uBook and the slew of other readers out there that read PDB and PRC can only read the "old" type of PDB (text only) not the newer PDB specifically for Palm Reader (text + formatting instructions and navigation).
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Talyn, uBook version 0.9b is
now out and it DOES support newer PDB files. From the Gowerpoint site:
1) PDB: Added handling of Palm format (eReader) and Mobipocket newer compression format.
- Does not handled encrypted files.
2) PML: Added parser, set as default for PDB files.
- Footnotes (Sidebars?) are dumped at the end of the text, without proper naming/linking.
- In PML \UXXXX \Xn \x \Cn are skipped or ignored
- No parser options yet...
3) RB: Added handling of Rocket eBook format
- Does not handled encrypted files.
- Handling is done through compressed folder, so the user has to select the proper HTML file from it.
4) CHM: Added file format handling.
- Memory hungry / slow on first open - fast afterwards.
5) PDF: Basic (Unencrypted) text extraction.
- Doesn't work on newer files.
- No font attributes.
- Formatting is not too good (what do you expect from a graphic/printing format)
- The result is similar to selecting all text in Acrobat Reader and copying it to a text file (i.e. if the page wasn't generated top-down, the text gets mixed-up...)
Note: ubook now supports PML, PDF, Rocket eBook and CHM formats (albeit rudimentary support in some cases, but it's a start).